21 Thomas Carlyle Quotes

"All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you."

- Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Service

"Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only."

- Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Good and Evil

"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is."

- Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Friendship

"We are the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God."

- Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Miracles

"A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing."

- Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Religion, Believing, Doubt

"Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!"

- Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Truth, Lying

"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!"

- Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Grace

"The devil has his elect."

- Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Satan

"A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner."

- Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Holiness

"He walked into Judaea eighteen hundred years ago; His sphere melody, flowing in wild native tones, took captive the ravished souls of men, and, being of a truth sphere melody, still flows and sounds, though now with thousandfold accompaniments and rich symphonies, through all our hearts, and modulates and divinely leads them."

- Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Jesus

"Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back."

- Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Christians

"In idleness there is a perpetual despair."

- Thomas Carlyle

Topics: idleness

"What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?"

- Thomas Carlyle

Topics: Heaven, Nature

"Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given."